Rangers should act as Hull City join race for Motherwell's Ben Heneghan

Rangers’ central defensive pairing when the Scottish Premiership kicks off next month could be completely different to the one that ended the previous campaign.

Portuguese manager Pedro Caixinha has brought two of his compatriots to Ibrox in the shape of former Vitoria Setubal centre-back Fabio Cardoso and 93-time Portuguese international Bruno Alves.

Bruno Alves has played in five countries - but never Scotland

However, with no prior experience of British football to call upon, it is far from guaranteed that the Iberian enforcers will immediately shore up a defence whose penchant for conceding sloppy goals meant Rangers finished a distant third behind Celtic and Aberdeen last season.

Danny Owen

Daniel is a Journalist graduate from Leeds Trinity University and is generally obsessed with everything football related. Daniel watches everything from Augsburg in the Bundesliga to Vitesse in the Eredivisie with as much La Liga as possible thrown in for good measure.